Repairs Begin On Maple Avenue Paving Locals Hopeful
Grafton Traction workers repair brick paving between alls and ends of cross ties on Maple avenue for a week or two to fix a long standing problem. Dampness and water seepage from the hillside have washed or softened the underbed, creating a corduroy road that makes auto travel uncomfortable. About five hundred feet completed. more sections to follow in coming days with hope the full length will last the winter. The work has drawn favorable comments from residents as a first step toward a smoother street.
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Grafton Traction Company
Maple Avenue
Iken Sore Thomb
Spruce Street
Meeting Called: Republican National Committee Sept. 9
Denver reports Dr. Hubert Work retiring chairman of the Republican national committee issued a call for a committee meeting in Washington on September 9. At the gathering the chairman, second vice chairman, and members from states with vacancies will be chosen.
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Denver
Hubert Work
Republican National Committee
Washington
Dream causes near death in Kansas City incident
Everett Parrish, 29, a huckster, dreamed of selling tomatoes to a man who protested the price. The dreamer bolted through a window as the imagined pursuer fired a shotgun. Parrish received treatment for severe bruises.
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Kansas City
Everett Parrish
Parrish
Woman Killed in Lincoln Highway Crash near Ligonier
A car veered off the Lincoln highway near Ligonier last night, striking two telephone poles and tumbling down a 12 foot embankment. Mary Helen Beatty, 21, of Ligonier, died, and four men were injured, one seriously, as witnesses cited high speed. The poles were torn from their foundations. Nearby, seven convicts who escaped state prison guards in Auburn remain at large after a riot and prison-wall breach, with four fugitives still unaccounted for as food camps reported no new details.
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Greensburg
Lincoln Highway
Ligonier
Mary Helen Beatty
Agonlier
Auburn
Governors and Mrs Kohler Crash Plane at Green Bay Airfield
Governor and Mrs Walter Kohler narrowly escaped injury when their plane crashed on takeoff at Green Bay airport. The aircraft struck a tractor, bending the propeller and one landing wheel in the mishap.
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Green Bay
Wis
Walter J. Kohler
World War Veteran Dies at County Home
Henry Goldsmith, thirty eight, a colored World War veteran and tuberculosis victim, died yesterday at the county home after being found critically ill near the Galloway mines a week earlier. Relatives could not be located. body taken to Bolin Hamilton funeral parlors for county funeral arrangements.
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Henry Goldsmith
Galloway
Bolin- Hamilton Funeral
Accountants payroll robbed by two thieves near city hall
Topeka Kansas August 5 two robbers held up Glyde Knowlton an accountant near the city hall and stole 9200 the city's semi monthly payroll Knowlton had withdrawn the money from a bank and was en route to the treasurer's office in a car driven by a woman the robbers escaped in the motor car
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Topeka
Kans
Glyde Knowlton
Cty Hall
Knowlton
Cabinet Resigns Over Health In South Africa
Cape Town Aug 5 F W Beyers minister for mines and industries resigns from Premier Hertzog's cabinet due to ill health. The resignation affects the mining and industrial portfolio and the cabinet lineup.
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Cape Town
South Africa
F. W. Beyers
K. C
J.B. Hertzog
Mines
Oil portrait of Governor Con Hey hung in mansion
An oil portrait of Governor William G. Con Hey was completed and placed in the executive mansion at Charleston. The painting was created by D. H. Estep of New York City, a former resident of St. Albans nearby.
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Charleston
William G. Con Hey
D. H. Estep
New York City
St. Albans
Here
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